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descriptive catalogues of the economic minerals and notes on the 

 rocks exhibited in the Canadian Court on each occasion. 



In 1871, Dr. Selwyn was elected a Fellow of the Geological 

 Society of London, and in 1874 a Fellow of the Royal Society. In 

 1876 he was awarded the Murchison Medal by the Council of the 

 Geological Society, ' in recognition of his services to Silurian 

 geology/ 



First, and foremost, Selwyn was a stratigraphical geologist. His 

 career was one full of usefulness to the Empire. He wrought 

 successfully in the motherland, and also in two of her most pros- 

 perous colonies. His chief work in the three continents lay among 

 the older Palaeozoic and Archaean rocks. He paid special attention 

 to the pre-Cambrian volcanic rocks in the Eastern Townships 

 of Quebec, and was the first to decipher the geological structure of 

 the eruptive axes in Eastern Canada. His classification of pre- 

 Cambrian rocks made in 1877 is practically that adopted now by 

 recent investigators. He always emphasized the economic side of 

 the science of geology without, however, ignoring the claims 

 of original research. He did much to encourage those under him 

 to study and solve the problems of complex geological structure or of 

 chronology which presented themselves to him in his official labours. 



In the office, Selwyn was a strict disciplinarian. A love of 

 order and neatness seemed to be one of his leading characteristics, 

 and in the reports and work that he received from the staff he 

 demanded the same. But the more stern and severe official side of 

 his nature was in marked contrast with the sociable, amiable, and 

 chivalrous qualities which distinguished him in his own home. 



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Feancts Stevenson, who died at the advanced age of 74 in 

 February 1902, had become a Fellow of the Geological Society in 

 1877. His career was a notable one. He was born of an old 

 Scottish family in 1827, and after receiving his education at the 

 Edinburgh Academy, was, at the early age of 13, articled as a 

 pupil to the late Mr. R. B. Dockray (then one of the engineers of 

 the London & Birmingham Railway Company), becoming in 1843 

 a member of the engineering staff. He was engaged on the 

 construction of the Northampton & Peterborough line, which was 

 opened in 1845, and was also resident engineer on the Coventry 

 & Nuneaton Railway, completed in 1850. Subsequently he was 

 transferred to Euston Terminus, and in 1855 became assistant to the 



